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Kaiser Chiefs guitarist Whitey loves YouTube and the music of '88 - '92
Kaiser Chiefs guitarist Whitey loves YouTube and the music of '88 - '92
Kaiser_Chiefs_Week by Kaiser Chiefs October 24th, 2008
There are are not a lot of people who'd tell you that 1988 - '92 was a crap time for music but for the same token not that many people who'd tell you it was an essential time for music.

We asked Kaiser Chiefs enigma of a guitarist Whitey what he would like to contribute to the takeover and got no response. We asked him what he loved and the response we got back was this no nonsense collection of YouTubes for you to click through and a mix-tape tracklist...

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The email concluded with this little mixtape:

Whitey's top ten tracks from '88-92: This is when music was music

  • Chapterhouse - Pearl
  • Ride - Dreams Burn Down
  • Smashing Pumpkins - Rhinoceros
  • Wedding Present - Suck
  • Catherine Wheel - Black Mettallic
  • Sugarcubes - Hit
  • Dinosaur Jr - No Bones
  • Sonic Youth - Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit
  • LFO - LFO
  • Teenage Fanclub - The Concept



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